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Topic: Accidents happen!! (Read 2750 times)

I've been away for most of a week now. Two youngsters found me alongside the road, apparently having dodged some livestock. I have badly scraped knees, and a head still waiting for stitches (in a little while). I've been in the hospital up until last night, a total of five days in there, much of it seems garbled now as I look back. It may have been a steer running across in front of me, damage to the bike is a broken headlight, a torn open box and a badly bent foot peg, nothing that can't be handled, so that will be the next step.

I have spent much of the past five days sort of semi-comatose, people coming by now and then and feeling pretty much normal, except that there is a lurking confusion over what exactly happened (I have no memory of it all). Next few days I will start dealing with the bike, little by little, although I'm wondering if anything major is bent. The paint was spared but the front fork doesn't seem quite right, so I will have a slow go at it all.

Anyway, today I go for a final checkup then, hopefully, life here gets back to more or less normalcy, if one can call it that. Good that I can go on the forum and catch up on what others are now on about.

I just returned from the hospital and no stitches will be required, just found out that the gasoline bottle I was carrying on the back of the bike went missing, so this of course has me wondering if I may have swerved out of the path of a car, which then took the gas. Who knows, and I'm not going to worry further about it all. My brother-in-law drove me to the doctor and back home. Apparently, since I live a ways away from the hospital, until they get the new bridge in, my wife will change dressings on the small hole in my head. I feel quite chipper right now, though I haven't examined the bike closely yet.

People here are generally quite kind and willing to help where they are able. Someone, however, took the gallon bottle of gasoline I was carrying home for the mower, so that's a small loss. When you are as uninformed of things as I am, you begin to wonder about it all. Did the guy who took the gasoline, for example have anything to do with steering me off the road. it is odd that I was lying there unconscious at the same time as the gasoline was disappearing. Really an odd thing, as there was only a five quart bottle about half full.

Island looks a little different today, probably because my brother- in- law, Tanni, is doing the driving. He does drive very slowly, so has use of my car - no doubt in better hands with him! I do feel out of it all, totally, so will just drift along like this for now.

Larry, glad to hear you are OK. Memory loss caused by an accident can't be a good thing but may have an upside considering the circumstances. Somethings you just don't want to replay over and over again. I'm sure you will sort out the problems with your bike in a jiffy.

Larry, I'm glad you're OK. I've learned from my own (numerous) crashes and injuries to take my time recuperating. DON'T RUSH IT!!! That's the mistake all us macho men make. Rushing the recovery just drags out the recovery time. Keep us informed. If you would like, I'll get you a good deal on a new helmet. You should not re-use a helmet after an incident like this. Take care.